Clerical Crimes
Why do murder mysteries contain so many vicars?
Why do murder mysteries contain so many vicars?
Mentioned in this episode:
鈥 Measuring religious affiliation in Great Britain by Clive D. Field
鈥 The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
鈥 Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James
鈥 The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
鈥 Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
鈥 Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death by James Runcie
鈥 鈥淭he Blue Cross鈥 by G.K. Chesterton from The Innocence of Father Brown
鈥 Literary Distractions by Ronald Knox
鈥 The Cadfael Chronicles by Ellis Peters
鈥 Quiet as a Nun by Antonia Fraser
鈥 St Peter鈥檚 Finger by Gladys Mitchell
鈥 Close Quarters by Michael Gilbert
鈥 The Black Seraphim by Michael Gilbert
鈥 Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin
鈥 鈥淭he Guilty Vicarage鈥 by W.H. Auden
鈥 Busman鈥檚 Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
鈥 Christianity and the Detective Story edited by Anya Morlan and Walter Raubicheck
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